The quest for orthologs: finding the corresponding gene across genomes

A Kuzniar, RCHJ van Ham, S Pongor, JAM Leunissen - Trends in Genetics, 2008 - cell.com
Orthology is a key evolutionary concept in many areas of genomic research. It provides a
framework for subjects as diverse as the evolution of genomes, gene functions, cellular …

Enhanced annotations and features for comparing thousands of Pseudomonas genomes in the Pseudomonas genome database

GL Winsor, EJ Griffiths, R Lo, BK Dhillon… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pseudomonas Genome Database (http://www. pseudomonas. com) is well
known for the application of community-based annotation approaches for producing a high …

Inferring orthology and paralogy

AM Altenhoff, C Dessimoz - Evolutionary Genomics: Statistical and …, 2012 - Springer
The distinction between orthologs and paralogs, genes that started diverging by speciation
versus duplication, is relevant in a wide range of contexts, most notably phylogenetic tree …

InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation

K Breuer, AK Foroushani, MR Laird… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract InnateDB (http://www. innatedb. com) is an integrated analysis platform that has
been specifically designed to facilitate systems-level analyses of mammalian innate …

Pseudomonas Genome Database: improved comparative analysis and population genomics capability for Pseudomonas genomes

GL Winsor, DKW Lam, L Fleming, R Lo… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Pseudomonas is a metabolically-diverse genus of bacteria known for its flexibility and
leading free living to pathogenic lifestyles in a wide range of hosts. The Pseudomonas …

Choosing BLAST options for better detection of orthologs as reciprocal best hits

G Moreno-Hagelsieb, K Latimer - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The analyses of the increasing number of genome sequences requires shortcuts
for the detection of orthologs, such as Reciprocal Best Hits (RBH), where orthologs are …

Newly introduced genomic prophage islands are critical determinants of in vivo competitiveness in the Liverpool Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

C Winstanley, MGI Langille, JL Fothergill… - Genome …, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates have a highly conserved core genome representing up
to 90% of the total genomic sequence with additional variable accessory genes, many of …

InnateDB: facilitating systems‐level analyses of the mammalian innate immune response

DJ Lynn, GL Winsor, C Chan, N Richard… - Molecular systems …, 2008 - embopress.org
Although considerable progress has been made in dissecting the signaling pathways
involved in the innate immune response, it is now apparent that this response can no longer …

Computational methods for Gene Orthology inference

DM Kristensen, YI Wolf, AR Mushegian… - Briefings in …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Accurate inference of orthologous genes is a pre-requisite for most comparative genomics
studies, and is also important for functional annotation of new genomes. Identification of …

The Burkholderia Genome Database: facilitating flexible queries and comparative analyses

GL Winsor, B Khaira, T Van Rossum, R Lo… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
As the genome sequences of multiple strains of a given bacterial species are obtained, more
generalized bacterial genome databases may be complemented by databases that are …